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• This invention relates generally to a lyophilized (freeze-dried) meal including an edible food, a component of which includes a marker or drug and methods for using same for reliably delivering a marker or drug into a mammal and the use of that meal for measuring the absorption of therapeutic and diagnostic drugs or markers across an array of highly standardized meals. It also relates to a method of validating a meal to be used in diagnostic or test methods. Furthermore, the meal may be used to measure bodily (physiological) functions as a result of the digestion, absorption and/or metabolism of the meal and its marker or drug.
• Digestion of consumed foodstuffs begins in the oral cavity where food is mechanically broken down by mastication, lubricated with saliva, and enzymatically processed by amylase present in the saliva. Digestion continues in the stomach where food is liquefied by gastric juices and enzymes secreted by the cells lining the stomach to produce chyme. Chyme enters the small intestine via the pyloric sphincter for further processing by bile salts produced by the liver and pancreatic digestive enzymes. Components not absorbed by or transported into the small intestine are subject to subsequent processing in the large intestine.
• the rate at which chyme travels to the small intestine is the product of numerous physiological factors including, hormones, chemical signals in the ingesta, as well as signals from the nervous system.
• a number of the population are affected by disorders that affect the emptying rate. For example, when the rate is accelerated, undigested food is prematurely dumped from the stomach to the small intestine. Conversely, when the rate is decelerated, the movement of ingested food from the stomach to the small intestine is delayed, giving rise to the condition termed “delayed emptying” otherwise known as gastroparesis.
• disorders involving gastric emptying rate are typically diagnosed by monitoring the rate at which a meal empties the stomach and enters the small intestine.
• an edible food is used to transport a marker into the gut of an animal and gastric emptying monitored by the marker.
• Scintigraphy involves the ingestion of a meal including at least one edible food, a component of which has been radiolabeled and the subsequent measurement of gamma emission by a scintillation camera as the labeled food is emptied from the stomach.
• the most common type of meal used in scintigraphy measurement of gastric emptying is a meal typically made by cooking 0.5 mCi 99m Tc sulphur colloid with two raw eggs or 120 grams of a liquid egg substitute such as the product sold by ConAgra under the trademark Egg Beater®.
• the patient fasts the night before the test.
• the patient consumes the cooked radiolabeled egg component with two slices of bread, 30 grams of jam and 120 ml of water.
• Scintigraphic scaiming with anterior and posterior cameras is performed immediately after the test meal is consumed and scans are obtained every 15 minutes for two hours and every 30 minutes for up to six hours. Scintigraphy measurements of gastric emptying are direct, since the camera directly measures the meal exiting the stomach.
• t LAG is the time required for the first 10% of the food to empty from the stomach.
• t 1/2 is the time required for half of the contents to be emptied from the stomach.
• Percent gastric retention of the radiolabel is calculated at each time point to generate a scintigraphic gastric retention curve.
• the curve is mathematically modeled with a power exponential model and the diagnostic result t LAG and t 1/2 can be calculated from the curve.
• the meal is triturated by the stomach to a particle size of approximately 1-2 mm and then passes from the stomach through the pylorous into the intestine.
• the labeled products of 13 C- Spirulina platensis digestion are absorbed and metabolized giving rise to labeled carbon dioxide expired in the breath.
• the rate of 13 CO 2 appearance in the patient's breath ( 13 CO 2 excretion rate) is correlated to the rate of gastric emptying.
• the predicate and surrogate meals are as similar in composition, texture and nutritional content to each other as possible.
• One embodiment of the invention comprises a freeze-dried (lyophilized) edible food comprising a marker or drug for delivering the marker or drug as part of a meal to be consumed by a mammal in order to assess a bodily function, diagnose a condition or other such medical application.
• Another aspect of the invention is a method for validating the use of a surrogate marker or drug as a component of an edible food in a surrogate or predicate meal as a means of assessing a particular bodily function or diagnosing a particular medical condition comprising providing a lyophilized predicate meal, said predicate meal comprising a first marker or first drug which predicate meal has been validated for use in a medical test and providing a lyophilized surrogate meal, said surrogate meal comprising a second marker or second drug chosen for use with the surrogate meal in the medical test wherein the predicate meal and surrogate meal without the marker or drug are matched in physiological and metabolic behavior.
• Yet another aspect is a method of measuring gastric emptying utilizing a standardized, freeze-dried meal incorporating a marker that is mathematically correlated to a bodily function to be evaluated.
• a standardized gastric emptying test that is safe, efficient, and that can be readily used in a clinical setting may employ a stable marker such as 13 C incorporated into a prepared standardized meal.
• a standardized freeze-dried meal uniformly labeled, easily re-constituted surrogate meal will assure more reliable performance of the test for which the meal is prepared.
• freeze dry and lyophilize are used interchangeably herein.
• the standardized meal into which the marker is to be incorporated may be any food type suitable for human consumption.
• typical meals used for gastric emptying tests have included scrambled eggs and liver.
• any food item that is amendable to the freeze dry process may be utilized.
• Food items can be chosen to accommodate patients with special dietary needs, for example, vegetarians or those desiring food processed under Kosher standards.
• the standardized meal is eggs.
• Traditional scintigraphy methods have provided a meal consisting of a sandwich prepared with radio labeled eggs. Recent studies indicate that the excretion curve derived from a biologically labeled meal correlates well with the gamma emission curve. Further, eggs are amendable to the freeze drying process and have a long shelf life.
• the meal or edible food component of a meal can be labeled with a stable, biologically safe isotope, such as 13 C.
• 13 C may be provided from any source that is suitable for human consumption.
• octanoic acid incorporating 13 C may be mixed with the meal or edible food component of a meal.
• the source of the 13 C is S. platensis .
• Algae containing 13 C may be obtained by growing the algal cells in a 13 C-enriched environment as is disclosed in commonly assigned pending U.S. application Ser. No. 10/417,951, METHODS OF PRODUCING CARBON-13 LABELED BIOMASS, filed Apr. 16, 2003, the disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.
• the freeze-dry standardized meal can be used with a variety of markers and applied to a wide array of meal types and incorporate all types and exacting amounts of markers, including those that are directly synthesized with 13 Carbon label or those derived through biomasses like 13 C- S. platensis.
• the 13 C is desirably uniformly distributed throughout the edible meal or food component thereof.
• the meal or component thereof and 13 C algae are lyophilized separately.
• a pre-measured amount of 13 C algae is thoroughly mixed with a pre-measured amount of lyophilized egg to ensure uniform distribution.
• a pre-measured amount of algae containing 13 C can be thoroughly mixed with a pre-measured amount of egg prior to lyophilization. In this embodiment, no onsite preparation other than reconstitution and cooking, if necessary, is required.
• the amount of algae or other source of 13 C to be added to the meal or component thereof will depend on a variety of factors including desired dosage, the amount of meal material, and the source of 13 C. It is apparent that a plurality of meals can be produced simultaneously according to the freeze dry method. Once the marker is uniformly distributed in a meal or component thereof, individual servings can be produced by simply dividing the batch by weight, volume, or any other suitable technique, into individual servings.
• Freeze-dried meals provide a vehicle of reliably and accurately incorporating a marker such as a stable isotope labeled material or drug into a edible food matrix.
• the marker or drug may be incorporated into the edible food during preparation or at the site where the meal will be re-constituted.
• Freeze-dried meals also assure standardization of tests across all medical users and sites of administration.
• Various biological markers or drugs, and combinations thereof, can be incorporated and evaluated from the same meal matrix. Refrigeration is not required for freeze-dried meals, which makes them easier to store and prevents spoilage.
• the lyophilized delivery meal may be utilized to effectively and accurately incorporate and deliver any marker, isotope, or drug that is not susceptible to degradation during the lyophilization process so that the marker or drug maintains its functional activity once the delivery meal is reconstituted.
• Freeze-drying a standard meal wherein a marker or drug may be incorporated into one component of the meal may be used to deliver a marker or drug for use in any medical procedure where a physiological measurement is made following ingestion of a labeled edible food by the patient.
• the standardized freeze dried meal may be used to assess gastric emptying in patients or test subjects.
• the clinical personnel simply reconstitute the pre-labeled meal prior to the test.
• the patient then ingests the meal including the marker, for example, labeled algae.
• the 13 C is absorbed and oxidized to 13 CO 2 .
• the 13 CO 2 is excreted in the breath of the patient. Breath samples are collected by techniques known in the art, at periodic time intervals and the amount of 13 CO 2 in the breath sample determined by techniques known in the art.
• the marker must remain bound to the delivery vehicle, for example, an edible food component. If the marker becomes unbound it may move out in front of the solid phase emptying process into the liquid phase, passing through the pylorus and into the intestine faster than is representative of the actual gastric emptying process. It may also pass through the stomach wall and enter the circulation and metabolism process in a manner that gives rise to a 13 CO 2 signal unrelated to the digestive process intended to be measured. Thus, it is important to ensure that the manufacturing process does not change the nature of raw materials to the extent that binding capacity is lost.
• Target dose mg 13 C/( 13 C-Atom % Carbon %) mg [ 13 C]- S. platensis dispensed
• Table 1 provides several examples of how the equation is used. This calculation is applicable to 13 C-labeled molecules or larger entities, such as a biomass.
• a specific example is to conduct a prospective cross-over study where a set of normal patients and a set equal in number of patients with known delayed gastric emptying are each administered the same meal 3 times on separate occasions with the meal remaining the same except for a different dosage of 13 C label as prescribed in the table above.
• the area under the 13 CO 2 excretion curves from the normal and delayed emptying groups can be compared at the 3 different dose levels with appropriate statistical challenges to determine the lowest acceptable dose that provides sufficient signal to assess both normal and impaired (delayed) gastric emptying utilizing the intended meal. The can then be consistently produced containing the selected dosage.
• the protein in the egg meal may be primarily albumin, whereas the roll may contain primarily soy protein.
• the matrix binding the labels is different and subtle but important differences in trituration, absorption, and metabolism of the surrogate marker or drug may occur that will affect the proper classification of a patient.
• the surrogate meal should match the predicate meal.
• a surrogate meal intended for widespread outpatient utilization to be highly reliable, safe and easily distributed it should be consistent in texture, composition and nutritional value to the predicate meal; have a consistent physiological and metabolic relationship to the predicate meal used to determine its efficacy; be safe from spoilage and decay; and have a commercially reasonable shelf life prior to utilization.
• both the predicate 99m Tc label or meal and the surrogate marker or meal may be incorporated into the same meal matrix.
• the 99m Tc label must be added to the meal matrix at the site of administration due to its short radioactive-1 ⁇ 2 life-nature.
• the predicate meal is provided as the lyophilized standard pre-labeled meal described above. After the predicate meal is reconstituted, 99m Tc label is added so that the radiolabel and surrogate marker are bound in the same food matrix. The patient or test subject then ingests the dual labeled meal and gastric emptying is measured simultaneously by the scintigraphy method previously described and the breath test. The two measurements thus obtained are compared against each other and mathematically correlated. Since both the radiolabel and surrogate marker are incorporated into the same matrix, this embodiment allows for the reliable validation of a predicate meal type or predicate marker.
• One advantage of establishing a lyophilized meal suitable for introduction of both a predicate and surrogate marker is that the meal may be used to test different dosages of labels to assure that there is sufficient label signal arising from the meal to make the appropriate physiologic or diagnostic conclusion.
• the appropriate dose of 13 C to be incorporated in the meal to provide a reliable 13 CO 2 excretion rate in the patient.
• the signal must be readily measurable providing reliable data from which to establish the mathematical relationship between the predicate and surrogate marker.
• both a surrogate meal and predicate meal are prepared according to the lyophilization process described above to prepare a surrogate meal matching a like-prepared predicate meal.
• meals having identical edible food components that is, the same edible food in the same amounts in each meal, prior to the incorporation of any label into the meal
• the predicate label and surrogate marker are each added at the time of reconstitution.
• Both the predicate meal and the surrogate meal intended to be tested in clinical studies will be prepared with the same pre-label contents and in the same manner.
• the surrogate label is stable, that is, capable of maintaining its functional activity, it may be added to a meal prior to lyophilization. Since two meals are compared the patient or test subject will ingest each meal at different times and the results mathematically correlated.
• a surrogate meal that can be used to reliably validate the use of a surrogate marker or drug that is similar in texture, composition and nutritional value to a predicate meal and that may be readily incorporated into a commercially available meal/delivery system will allow for the substitution of stable non-radioactive labels for radioactive labels in test meals.
• stable, non-radioactive markers may be used.
• a multitude of assessments may be done using the gastric emptying markers described herein such as predicate and surrogate marker comparisons, measurement of intra-patient gastric motility variation, inter-patient comparisons, and the like.
• the edible foods of the surrogate, predicate, or meals used in the clinical setting of the invention are prepared in a controlled food and/or pharmaceutical manufacturing environment meeting appropriate regulatory standards with long term packaging stability and with easy and reliable re-constitution techniques.
• the preparation of these meals in a manufacturing environment of this type ensures that the raw materials of the meals will not be randomly prepared at the site of test administration, which may lead to inaccuracies. For example, inconsistencies may arise from site to site due to differences in grocery type supplies, differences in cooking methods and times, and test administration techniques.
• the use of a manufacturing process to prepare the edible food is beneficial because it allows not only for the production of a more “standardized” meal, but for wide scale commercial use of the edible foods with an appropriate biological marker or drug. For those meals that must be cooked at the testing site, it is best that the same method of cooking be applied to the predicate meal and the surrogate meal to minimize uncertainty.
• a freeze-dried standardized meal of the invention can serve as a standardized delivery mode for therapeutic drugs.
• an array of freeze-dried standardized meals of the invention can be used to study the absorption of various diagnostic and/or therapeutic drugs with varying meal compositions.
• a freeze-dried standardized meal incorporating markers and/or therapeutic and diagnostic drugs can be used for animal studies in which food components, dosage of label or drug and amount of food by weight must be delivered with reliable control.
• freeze drying the edible food components of the meal ensures not only the stability of the meal but the reproducibility of the test results obtained with such standardized meals.
• the edible food components may be prepared by baking of the edible components into a roll or biscuit in accordance with a standardized process and the predicate marker or drug and the surrogate marker or drug may be incorporated into the meal during a controlled manufacturing process or at the site of the test.
• the total amount of labeled algae required was calculated by the following equation: Number of doses ⁇ mg[ 13 C]- S. platensis /dose
• the liquid egg formulation containing the appropriate amount of thoroughly mixed label was pumped onto pre-chilled anodized aluminum lyophilization trays and lyophilized for 24 hours with a initial temperature of ⁇ 20° C. and a final temperature of 48° C. under ⁇ 200 microns of pressure, to meet a loss on drying (LOD) specification of ⁇ 3.0% moisture content.
• LOD loss on drying
• the resulting freeze-dried labeled mixture was divided to produced 2,000 units of meals of uniform weight and label distribution.
• the samples had a mean recovery of 6.01 mg per sample, a standard deviation of 0.072, and a % relative standard deviation of 1.19%. These results demonstrate that the 13 C label was uniformly distributed in the meal matrix.
• freeze dried meal and label may be desirable to provide the freeze dried meal and label separately so that the label may be mixed with the meal just prior to use.
• uniform distribution of the label remains of significant importance.
• Each of the 6 slices of each the 3 meals were dried and into uniform samples via mortar and pedestal. An aliquot was removed from each sample and combusted and assayed by gas isotope ratio mass spectrometry and the amount of 13 C determined by comparison to a known standard.
• U.S.P. gastric fluid was prepared by dissolving 2.0 g of NaCl 2 and 3.2 g of purified pepsin derived from porcine stomach mucosa with an activity of 800-2500 units/mg protein in 7.0 mL of hydrochloric acid. The volume was brought to 1 L with water and the pH brought to approximately 1.2.
• the egg meal portions were incubated in 100 mL of the prepared gastric solution at 37° C. for 30 minutes with constant stirring at a fixed rate of 200 ⁇ 20 rpm using a stainless steel paddle apparatus located approximately 0.25 in from the bottom of the flask. After digestion, the contents of each flask were poured over a stacked set of 4 mm, 2 mm, and 1 mm screens and rinsed with cool tap water for 1 minute at a rate of approximately 4 L/min and the screening stack allowed to drain for 5 minutes.
• the weight of digested meal remaining on each screen was recorded and isolated in tared aluminum sample pans. The samples were air dried over night at 105° C. to remove excess water. An aliquot of the 1 mm sample (representative of the smallest size a food particle reaches after the full trituration process) was analyzed for 13 C by combustion and assay by ratio mass spectrometry and compared to the pre-digestion 13 C amounts. The percent binding was calculated according to the following equation: ( 13 C content per gram of Carbon post-digested meal)/( 13 C content per gram of Carbon pre-digested meal) ⁇ 100.
• Percent binding was 100% in the 1 mm digested samples compared to the pre-digested samples with 51% of the overall egg mass lost during in vitro digestion.

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